The conventional tuning fork as a quantitative tool for vibration threshold

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Mohammed H Alanazy1, Nuha A Alfurayh1, Shaza N Almweisheer1

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Neurology, King Saud University Medical City and College of Medicine, King Saud University, PO Box 7805, Riyadh, 11472, Saudi Arabia.

Muscle & Nerve
|May 4, 2017
PubMed
Abstract

Keywords:
Rydel-Seiffer tuning forkconventional tuning forkquantile regressionreference valuestuning forkvibration threshold

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